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πολυλογία

polylogía · G4180 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. many words, long speaking

    To speak for a long time or much

    Examples

    Matthew 6:7 “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Contrasting words 1 word
σιγή sigḗ · G4602 · silence
Silence as the absence of speech represents a conceptual opposite to prolixity/many words, though not a direct morphological antonym
Semantic domains 1 entry
Many words, long speaking33.87
The noun names an excess of words or wordiness in speech. Matthew's account of Jesus's teaching on prayer uses this term: “‘And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words’” (Matthew 6:7).
Word family 13 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πολύς polýs · G4183 · many, a great deal of, a great number of · 354×πολλάκις pollákis · G4178 · often, many times · 18×ἐμπίπλημι empíplēmi · G1705 · to be satisfied, to have one’s fill, to enjoy · 5×πλεῖστος pleîstos · G4118 · the largest number or very large · 4×πολυτελής polytelḗs · G4185 · valuable, expensive · 3×πολύτιμος polýtimos · G4186 · valuable, expensive · 3×πολλαπλασίων pollaplasíōn · G4179 · many times as much, many times greater than · 2×πολυλογίαpolylogía · G4180πολυμερῶς polymerōs · G4181 · fragmentary, in many parts, often · 1×πολυποίκιλος polypoíkilos · G4182 · many and diverse, manifold, many-sided · 1×πολύσπλαγχνος polýsplanchnos · G4184 · very compassionate, with much affection · 1×πολυτρόπως polytrópōs · G4187 · in many ways · 1×πάμπολυς pámpolys · G3827 · full many, i.e. immense · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολυλογίας, ἡ (πολύλογος), much speaking, (Plautus, Vulg.,multiloquium): Mt 6:7. (Prov…
πολυλογίας, ἡ (πολύλογος), much speaking, (Plautus, Vulg.,multiloquium): Mt 6:7. (Prov 10:19; Xenophon, Cyril 1, 4, 3; Plato, legg. 1, p. 641 e.; Aristotle, polit. 4, 10 (p. 1295{a}, 2); Plutarch, educ. puer. 8, 10.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Speak, Talk1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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